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Caroline Flint
Labour MP for Don Valley

    • Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Caroline Flint voted on key issues since 2001:

    • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
    • Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
    • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
    • Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
    • Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
    • Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
    • Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
    • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
    • Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
    • Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
    • Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
    • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Energy and Climate Change, Communities and Local Government, Treasury, Home Department, Work and Pensions

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Energy, Warm Front Scheme, Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs, Solar Power, Green Deal Scheme

    (based on written questions asked by Caroline Flint and answered by departments)

    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (21 May 2013)

    “To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the remit of the local energy assessment fund; and if he will make a statement.”

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    • Has spoken in 17 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 290 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
    • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
    • Has voted in 69.95% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 33 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
    • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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    • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 715 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
    Parliamentary Panel survey questionnaires completed for ComRes, 4 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA.
    Payment of £75 for completing January-February 2012 survey. Hours: 1 hr. Payment made directly to Don Valley Labour Party, received April 2012. (Registered 14 June 2012)
    Payment of £75 for completing February-March 2012 survey. Hours: 1 hr. Payment received 22 May 2012. (Registered 14 June 2012)
    Payment of £75 for May-June survey.  Hours: 1 hr. Payment received 4 July 2012. (Registered 18 July 2012)
    Payment of £75 for July survey.  Hours: 1 hr. Payment received 23 August 2012. (Registered 12 September 2012)
    Payment of £75 for November-December 2012 survey.  Hours: 1 hr. Payment made directly to Don Valley Labour Party, received 14 January 2013. (Registered 22 January 2013)
    Payment of £150 from BSkyB for appearance on Murnaghan show, December 2011. Hours: 3 hrs. Payment received 16 May 2012. (Registered 14 June 2012)
    4. Sponsorships
    (b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
    (b) Name of donor: Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd
    (b) Address of donor: 13 Fitzroy Street  London W1T 4BQ  United Kingdom
    (b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Policy analysis provided to me as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, 1 day per week for a period of 6 months, commencing 4 February 2013. Value £7,942.
    (b) Date of receipt: 4 February 2013
    (b) Date of acceptance:4 February 2013
    (b) Donor status: company, registration no 952468
    (b) (Registered 30 January 2013; corrected 25 February 2013)
    6. Overseas visits
    Name of donor: Norwegian Government
    Address of donor: Norwegian Embassy, 25 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QD
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): costs of visit; £2,000
    Destination of visit: Norway
    Date of visit: 20-24 May 2012
    Purpose of visit: as part of a delegation to study issues of climate change and defence.
    (Registered 19 June 2012)

    Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register

    View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

    Expenses

    Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.

    Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/05 (ranking out of 659)2003/04 (ranking out of 658)2002/03 (ranking out of 657)2001/02 (ranking out of 657)
    Staying away from main home£19,383 (314th) £20,861 (352nd) £22,108 (joint 188th with 3 others) £21,634 £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) £20,317 (joint 189th with 1 other) £19,718 (joint 250th with 2 others) £14,580 (399th)
    London costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) £1,255 (joint 107th with 10 others) £0 £0
    Office running costs£18,263 (297th) £19,114 (288th) £12,920 (584th) £16,502 £16,131 (441st) £16,693 (539th) £18,230 (joint 203rd with 4 others) £13,487 (397th)
    Staffing costs£79,827 (571st) £89,319 (260th) £86,147 (251st) £67,703 £59,313 (616th) £68,023 (joint 228th with 71 others) £60,614 (512th) £46,225 (309th)
    Communications Allowance£7,137 (398th) £9,580 (224th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Travel£9,088 (242nd)1 £8,918 (258th)2 £8,560 (284th)3 £7,165 £9,727 (343rd) £10,391 (314th) £11,073 (283rd) £7,610 (339th)
    Members' Staff Travel£60 (joint 363rd with 1 other) £0 £407 (250th) £803 £1,041 (179th) £987 (165th) £1,517 (joint 94th with 1 other) £94 (joint 406th with 1 other)
    Members' Spouse Travel£1,457 (80th) £2,391 (45th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Family Travel£0 £0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Centrally Purchased Stationery£6,979 (joint 30th with 1 other) £1,269 (135th) £1,316 (193rd) £786 £3,074 (50th) £1,546 (121st) £1,303 (joint 214th with 2 others) £897 (375th)
    Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£5,730 (11th) £3,217 (joint 263rd with 1 other) £1,358 £10,245 (42nd) £5,934 (82nd) N/A N/A
    Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,591 (10th) £1,330 (35th) £137 £2,021 (joint 38th with 8 others) £2,021 (joint 34th with 8 others) £2,021 (joint 34th with 8 others) £2,021 (joint 33rd with 8 others)
    Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
    Total£142,194 (424th) £158,773 (114th) £136,005 (361st) £116,088 £124,072 (306th) £127,167 (168th) £114,476 (291st) £84,914 (408th)

    1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Rail £9,088 (56th).

    2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,548 (456th). Rail £7,370 (98th).

    3 Car £1,546 (479th). Rail £7,014 (93rd).